QUS News Archive

The Utrecht rainbow canon has a new window: 1987 AIDS. In this window, you can read all about the impact of AIDS in Utrecht and the new approach for AIDS patients by internist Jan Borleffs and nurse Jan Vrehen. 

A procession of ‘experts’ sought explanations for deviant sexual behavior. At first we only knew the sodomite, in the course of the 19th century the pederast, the uranist, the urninde and the homosexual made their entrance.

In the exhibition ‘Utrechts Nieuwste!’ in the Utrecht Archives you can see interesting acquisitions from recent years, including from the gay disco De Roze Wolk. 

QUA launches the new Utrecht rainbow canon on Purple Friday 2022

Today the performance of the Utrecht Passion starts in the Vredenburg music centre. The Utrecht sodomy trials are part of the text.

Utrecht historical rainbow walk, Sunday 28 August 7 pm, from Queer Villa Utrecht, Concordiastraat 67A.

On October 29, 2022, you can go to the musical performance 'From the shadow of the Dom, from the path of sodomy to LHBTIQ+' at the Utrecht Music School. A program by gay male choir Cantatori del Duomo, female choir Cantate Zus & Zo and duo Kees and Ingeborg.

On June 24, 25 and 26, 2022 you can go to the play 'If the walls could talk' by theater Oester in the Utrecht Domtoren about the Utrecht Rainbow history.

UTRECHT PRIDE, 4 June 2022: The municipality of Utrecht had chosen the Utrecht Rainbow Canon as the theme for its boat. Swinging, the participants passed the 100,000 enthusiastic visitors on the quayside of Catharijnesingel and Oudegracht.

On 11 October 2021, Coming Out Day, the Utrecht Rainbow Canon was launched. Mayor Sharon Dijksma received the first copy from the hands of Laura van Nieuwenhuijze, president of COC Midden-Nederland, in the hall of the City Office.  

88 homosexuals arrested in Utrecht in 1938